Kaolin & clays and Sand & gravel

Their prices have moved together.

Kaolin & clays (commodity) and Sand & gravel (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: shared demand

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Brick, tile and pipe clays rise and fall with the same building activity that drives construction sand. The two indexes share a weak to moderate link, monthly moves at 0.25, yearly moves at 0.50 and 0.36 in the last five years, typical of local building materials.

• 0.25 monthly change correlation
• 0.50 12-month change correlation
• 0.62 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.